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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Interview With The Harp Twins

The Harp Twins are twin ladies who know how to rock! They
have played for heads of state and celebrities around the country. But they are
true music fans as well as fans of metal! Theyperform a variety of Television theme songs as well as covers by such
notable classic metal acts like Iron Maiden, Ozzy, and even AC/DC. Not only
does their music sound amazing but their videos are equally fantastic visual
representations of their passion.

1. Your cover of Iron Maiden's "Fear Of The
Dark" is excellent. It is what led me

to discover your music. Are there any plans to do more
Maiden songs?

Thanks so much! “Fear of the Dark” is our favorite Maiden
song and we had a

ton of fun covering it! We also recently posted a video for
our arrangement of

“Dance of Death” – which was our most elaborate music video
to date! We have

gotten a lot of requests to cover more Iron Maiden, so you
can definitely expect

more in the future. We have yet another Maiden song on our
“to arrange” list that

we think our fans will love.

2. Obviously the two of you are fans of metal music as
well as other forms. Name

your top five metal acts.

That’s really difficult, because we have a lot of favorite
songs from a lot of

different groups. However, some metal acts that make the top
of our current list

are Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne, Eluveitie, Angra, and
Metallica.

3. Are there any bands that you would like to record
with? And perhaps perform

on stage?

Oh goodness, yes! It would be a huge honor to play with any
of the bands and

artists we’ve covered!

4. The current wave of metal bands from Europe
are Symphonic and female

fronted. Do you ever see The Harp Twins perhaps fronting
your own symphonic

style metal band?

We find it awesome that there are so many female fronted
European symphonic

metal bands! It would be fun to perform with a rock or metal
band some day, and

being able to rock out with a band backing us would be a
dream come true. :) :)

5. Playing for presidents and people from all manner of
life, do you have any

crazy stories that may have happened backstage or during
a show?

One of the things that we most love about performing is that
every audience and

show is different. When we’ve played for huge political
events, our harps have

always been “swept” by the Secret Service. It was amusing to
see the dogs

sniffing around our harps and equipment. One time a few
years ago, we were

playing for a church service and the pastor tripped and fell
on K during

communion. She and the harp were almost knocked over and
there were

communion wafers all over the floor and us. Luckily, we
didn’t miss a beat and

the pastor was fine. However, thankfully we haven’t had
anything too crazy ever.

6. The Harp seems a little out of reach for the average
student in school. Do you

think The Harp Twins could help to change this? Maybe
tour some schools to

inspire the younger generation?

We think that the only reason that harps seem “out of reach”
is that people tend

to not think outside of the box. Since there are so many
people that play the

piano, or violin, or guitar, people can see the potential of
those instruments. We

are trying to show the world that the harp can rock just as
much as any

instrument and it isn’t necessarily any more expensive than
learning any other

instrument. In fact, we recently partnered with Harpsicle
Harps to show what can

be done with small, affordable harps. Our most recently
video is our arrangement

of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”, which we arranged
specially for our Harpsicle

Harps! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR2RVaXKQiE) When we
first

wanted to learn the harp in middle school, we worked a lot
of jobs to earn money

for our instruments and lessons. We had to show our mom that
we were serious

about learning the harp. We didn’t have a lot of money, but
we didn’t let anything

stop us from following our dreams. We didn’t believe (and
still don’t believe) that

anything is out of reach for someone who is willing to put
in the time and effort to

pursue their dreams. We’ve played for quite a few schools
for kids of all ages and

that is always a lot of fun! It is awesome to see the reactions
of kids to what we

can do with our harps. We definitely think our music is
starting to reach a new

audience and we would love to inspire a new generation of
musicians. We love

taking the harp where it has never been before!

7. Future plans for The Harp Twins

We’re not sure what the future holds, but world domination
by the Harp Twins

Revolution is a definite possibility. ;) ;) We would love to
continue to perform on

our harps and act. We love traveling, so we hope our work will
allow us to see

the world. The future is full of exciting possibilities and
we can’t wait to see what

life has in store.

8. Although twins, each of you has your own unique
personality. Name

something about each other that people might never
guess...

K: Camille can trill really, really, high. Like
ear-shatteringly high in pitch.

C: Kennerly can whistle and I can’t whistle worth beans. It
seems like I should be

able to since we are the same genetically!

9. Anything you would like to say to your fans.

Our fans are the BEST and we wouldn’t be where we are today
without them!

The support of our fans means the world to us and we are so
grateful for each

and every person who supports our music and us. We try to
show that

appreciation every day by spending as much time as possible
interacting with

them on our Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube.

That's about it. I know you are busy so take your time.
Personally I think your

music and versions of classic covers are excellent. Keep
up the fantastic music

making.

Thank you so much for your interest in our Duet Harp
Revolution! We would love

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